Internationally, Australia has always been a peace-loving national image. However, in the face of the Japanese army during World War II, Australia's performance was more crazy and cruel than the Japanese army at that time. They did not accept the surrender of the Japanese army, even the Japanese prisoners who laid down their weapons. The reason, of course, is that the Japanese have done it themselves.
On the battlefield in Singapore that year, the Australian soldiers who lost the battle to the Japanese army were cruelly treated by the Japanese army. Even though Australia had raised its flag and surrendered, the Japanese army had not reined in its bloodthirsty nature. We know that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and dropped a large number of bombs over Pearl Harbor.
After Singapore surrendered, the Japanese dropped more bombs in the Australian city of Darwin. Although the Australian government, which has received the news, has hidden more than 5,000 local citizens, it is inevitable that some citizens will still die. At the same time, it was the city that was destroyed, and the once-lively streets were reduced to ruins. Looking at the homes that had undergone the baptism of fire, the Australian army was completely angry. New Guinea has been called the "war of revenge" between the Australian army and the Japanese army, which is not bad at all.
After the Japanese dropped bombs on the city of Darwin, Australia was utterly enraged. Since its founding, Australia has never initiated any war. Internationally, Australia has always been peace-loving. This Japanese attack, and the Japanese army's mistreatment of Australian prisoners of war, made Australia, which has always been low-key, completely angry. At this time, they believed in an old Chinese saying: blood for blood, tooth for tooth.
The Japanese airstrikes directly caused Australia to fall into the camp of the American army. Hatred and dissatisfaction with Japan pervaded the whole of Australia, and war sentiments were on the verge of erupting. In particular, when it came to the news that prisoners of war had been tortured and killed by the Japanese army in Australia, the people of the whole country could no longer contain the anger in their hearts.
15,000 Australian prisoners of war were slaughtered by the Japanese, leaving only half of them in just a few days. Such a blood-dripping fact is unacceptable to peace-loving Australians, and young people at home have taken the initiative to join the army to avenge their compatriots. And families without young men of the right age have donated all their savings to support the government in buying weapons and shelling Japan. In this way, Australia quickly prepared for battle, just waiting for the right time to start.
The opportunity soon came. In 1943, Japan, which was expanding wildly, was hampered in papua. In order to speed up the process, Japan began to send continuous support to New Guinea. At this time, the Allies began to attack Japan, and Australia finally waited for the right opportunity. After the war broke out, Australia launched a frenzied attack on Japan from the rear. What makes the Japanese feel desperate is that in this war, Australia not only wants Japan to lose, but also to kill them.
Unsuspecting the Japanese, the Australian army began a frenzied bombardment of fire. The bombed Japanese wanted to hide in the bomb shelter, but it was too late. Most of the Japanese died outside the cave entrance, and only a few hid in the bomb shelter under the cover of the bodies of their comrades. The Japanese who had returned to their senses looked at the entrance of the cave, full of the bodies of their comrades.
However, the nightmare of the Japanese army did not end there. Next, the biggest problem they face is how to fill their stomachs. Supplies could not be delivered, and the Japanese army had already run out of food. What to eat? They set their sights on the corpses of their comrades outside the cave entrance. At first, they also followed the so-called civilized way of fighting, but after all, the desire to survive was the instinctive desire of human beings, and hunger overcame all theories, and they began to eat the corpses of their comrades-in-arms like crazy.
Although the troops repeatedly ordered that it was strictly forbidden to eat the bodies of comrades-in-arms, where could the Japanese troops with empty stomachs listen to them? Some eat on the line, where there are so many rules. Thanks to these comrades who died in battle, the Japanese troops in the air raid shelter survived for a while longer.
When the corpses were too much to eat, the Japanese had to surrender. No warrior of the emperor, no matter what supreme order of the emperor guards, he could not survive at this time. However, they did not understand that at this moment, they could not choose to surrender and survive. Despite repeated international emphasis on treating prisoners of war well, the Australian army has always treated prisoners of war with respect to other countries. However, none of these experiences applied to the once brutal and inhumane Japanese army.
After the rout, 200,000 Japanese troops unloaded their weapons and raised their flags to surrender, while the Australian army took up machine guns and fired wildly. They hated the Japanese who had killed their compatriots, the unarmed civilians, and the prisoners of war who had chosen to surrender. So Australia will repay them with cruelty a hundredfold.
The Australians brutally abused these prisoners of war, and some of them were tortured to the point of death, and the Australians took up bayonets and repeatedly stabbed them in the body. In the end, the vast majority of these 200,000 people were killed and injured, and only more than 10,000 people survived. After leaving the island of New Guinea, most of these 10,000 people have also left a lifelong psychological shadow and can no longer live like a normal person.
After the end of World War II, the name of the Japanese Emperor appeared in the list of prisoners of war produced by Australia, which stunned those who saw it.
The Japanese soldiers, who had always been known for their cruelty, who had always been trained as killing machines and inhuman, finally encountered an army that was more cruel than them and made them fear the extreme. This does not mean that Australian soldiers are cruel, in fact, they have also helped many countries and will never take the initiative to provoke incidents.
All this is just the result of Japan's self-assertion and crazy expansion. When faced with an opponent a hundred times stronger than themselves, although they were afraid, although they regretted it, they could not get back the innocent people who were tortured and killed by them in World War II.